# Cornell's Yoke Machine Grammar

# percent sign = line-break

{
<start>
<title> % <spacer> % <sentence> % <sentence> % <sentence> % <endsentence>
} 

{   
<title>
You enter for the first time | You enter all the time | You enter for the last time | 
You cannot enter | You cannot leave |  
}

{
<noun-phrase>
<det1> <noun1> |
<det2> <noun2> |
<noun3> 
}

{
<endsentence>
<pospro><abstract>%<time><moment>
}

{
<spacer>
***
}

{
<det1>
a
}

{
<sentence>
@<noun-phrase>%<adj1> <conj> <adj2> % <prep> |
 <prep> <conj2> % @<noun-phrase> % <adj1> <comma> <adj2>
}

{
<det2>
an
}

{
<noun1> 
cow | cat | tooth | fish | wristwatch | mudbrickwall | coffin |
space-suit | sparrow | bridge | giantess | vampire | bat | sleeve | pig | mountain | light-bulb |
tree | napkin | pool of blood | queen | nectarine | knife | coin | tiger | couch | bead |
cactus | lamp | rock | spider-web | gyroscope | robot | cyborg | coat | finger | ghost | skeleton |
ring | dried flower | dentist chair | barstool | lemming | plate | soapdish |
mouth | kidney | jewelry box | map | body | virgin | prostitute | girl | boy |
beard | surgeon | prosthetic leg | shotgun | sunflower | pillow | wrist | silkworm | voicebox
}

{
<noun2>
earring | egg | accordion | asterisk | eye | earlobe | elm | emperor | eagle | owl pellet | anatomical heart | 
alligator
}

{
<noun3>
fur | snow | wings | corn | mud water | rice | salt | sand
}

{   
<adj1>
spinning | widening | glowing | shriveling | shrinking | floating | ticking | sinking | melting | corroding | 
purring | tucked into itself | curling | growing | cracking | spreading | falling over and over | wiggling | 
splayed | making scratching sounds | drifting horizontally | perched | expanding | contracting | rolling | 
flickering | blinking | opening itself | turning on and off | 
}

{
<adj2>
heavy | wet | broken | light | music coming out of it | cold | dead | alive, barely | thick and impenetrable |spiny |
spotted | bright yellow | furry | hardboiled | murky | rotten | ocean-scented | filled with dread | cosmic | 
red | connecting two lands | full of desire | full of blood | blind | full of grammar | full of soul | open to air |
caged | immoveable | heliotropic | neatly-folded | right out of something from the movies! | royal | 
placed in a pot | washed in the river | making a slicing motion | glass|
}

{
<comma>
,
}


{
<conj>
& | , | : | - 
}

{
<conj2>
 , | : | - 
}

{
<prep> 
on the floor | hung from the fan with wire | on the TV | in the center of the room | in the corner of the room | 
on the shelf | underneath the floorboards | locked in the safe | draped over the door | outside the window, which is closed | 
outside the window, which is open |in a hologram <prep>| in a picture frame | enclosed in a column of smoke <prep> |
etched into the wall | behind you |   
}

{
<pospro>
[4] your | your mother's | your father's | your son's | your daughter's | your twin's | your conjoined twin's | your grandfather's | 
your grandmother's | your dog's | your cat's | your pediatrician's | your shrink's | your drugdealer's | 
your psychic's | your mistress's | your wife's | your husband's | your imagination's | your life trainer's | 
your colleague's | your partner's | your biological clock's | God's | your victim's |  
}

{
<abstract>
love | justice | death | innocence | immortality | shyness | ignorance | kindness | endlessness | boundary of self | 
childhood | youth | old age | exhaustion | repulsion | patience | encouragement | disapproval | contentment | 
compassion | alienation | KOOKINESS | tenderness ness ness | hullabaloo | vengeance | zeal | intensity | 
forgiveness ness ness | confusion | fear | disillusionment | insatiability | hunger | sheer bliss | humanity      
}

{
<time>
before the time | after the time | that time | before that ONE time | that ONE time | since that ONE time
}

{
<moment>
you died | you lived | when you let yourself feel it| when you were alive | you got a stain on your dress | 
you purchased a chinchilla| you ate an entire cake yourself | you fell asleep on the floor | 
you tied a cherry stem into a knot on your tongue | you discovered a band you liked | 
you pitched a tent in your room and slept in it | you started eating meat | you became a vegetarian | 
you married | you divorced | you conceived a baby | you shared a straw | you ate your first human | 
you killed a man | you assaulted a police officer | you were released from parole | you saw a hairless ape | 
you first drank blood | you first flew | you traded in your eyes for stones | you drank coffee | 
you went to a folk concert | you stood naked | you caught a fish | you drove across the country | 
you purchased a one-way plane ticket to Sweden | you lost your faith in God | you regained your faith in God |
you found a dead man's wallet | you danced with your eyes closed | you disappeared in the woods |
you saw earth from space | you lost your memory...permanently | you found a jar of dead bees on your porch | 
you sleepwalked out your window | you shot a man in a drug bust | you lost your car in the snow | 
you amputated your leg yourself |         
}